Description

SO8455SE
620-1/12/240

WORCESTER
FOREGATE STREET (East side)
No.2

(Formerly listed under FRIAR STREET, previously listed as: FRIAR STREET (East side) Nos.2, 3 AND 4)

08/3/74

GV
II
Terraced house, now shop and offices. Early to mid C19 with later additions and alterations, 1980s ground floor. Red/brown brick in Flemish bond with stucco dressings. Concealed roof; tall end-stacks, that to right renewed, all with oversailing detail and pots.

Three-storeys and attics. Three first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes wide band between first- and second-floor windows with recessed panel and central annular motif, frieze, cornice and blocking course. First-floor has tall, narrow 9/9 sashes, second-floor has 3/6 round arched head sashes with radial glazing to heads, all in plain reveals with sills and gauged brick arches, flat to first-floor. Three semi-circular headed lead dormers to attic. Renewed glazed shopfront.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Forms a group with numbers 3-6 and 63-66 (qqv).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669223

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)